Mac and Siri popular baby names in 2012

If you didn’t think the top baby names of 2012 list offered any insight into this year’s trends, think again: parents are increasingly naming their babies after their favorite technology.

As CNET pointed out, Babycenter.com’s list shows the name Mac for boys jumped 12 percent in 2012, most likely a tribute to mom and dad’s favorite computer. And for girls, the name Siri — also the name of the personal assistant that you can talk to in an iPhone 4S or 5 — went up by 5 percent.

The name Apple itself rose 15 percent for girls in 2012, although this could just be parents following Gwyneth Paltrow’s lead, or some other naming trend we haven’t noticed yet about fruit.